Summary_Talks_Present

SUMMARY OF TALKS/PRESENTATIONS by week

WEEK 1 (July 16-20)

Duncan Brown: gravitational waves: basic info, detector status, target sources. Eleonora Troja: EM facilities mainly gamma and x-ray, summary of observations status Ashley Bevin Zauderer: EM facilities, mainly optical and radio, transients. Brian Metzger: EM emissions, models and implciation on bands and observations. P. Ajith: basics of gravitational wave analytical of phenomenological models. Chad Hannah: basics of calibration and systematic errors in gravitational wave detectors. S. Husa: basic ideas and method to account for precession in binary systems and its influence in waveforms.

WEEK 2 (July 23-27) Sari: reviewed blastwave model for afterglow of GRBs Fryer: discussion/review on merger rates estimates Nishikawa; spectra calculation/model of GRB Giacommazzo: overview of results coming from GR simulations involving matter. McWilliams: using PTA to constrain/understand SMBh population Yunes: discussion on testing alternative theories of gravity

WEEK 3. CONFERENCE

WEEK 4 (August 6 - 10)